In this technical monograph, Paul Postal deals with several issues that inexplicably have been treated only marginally in the development of current linguistic theorizing. He focuses on three problems in syntactic theory that are connected to "extraction"--the occurrence of an element in a distinguished position distinct from its unmarked locus in simple clauses. He examines a largely ignored body of systematic contrasts among known extraction types, the status of the Coordinate Structure Constraint, and the phenomenon of Right Node Raising.

Part 1 Introduction: background
remarks on chapter 2
remarks on chapter 3
remarks on chapter 4. 
Part 2 Contrasting extraction types
two types of left extraction
A-extraction/B-extraction differences
antipronominal contexts
why are B-extractions incompatible with antipronominal contexts?
two subtypes of A-extraction. 
Part 3 The status of the coordinate structure constraint: background
A-scenarios
B-scenarios
C-scenarios
conclusion. 
Part 4 Right node raising and extraction: background
the unity of right node raising and left extractions
right node raising and slash category approaches to extraction
appendix A
appendix B
appendix C.

Paul M. Postal is Adjunct/Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University.

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